A few House of Representatives members in Michigan are looking to completely end slavery or involuntary servitude in Michigan.  Four House of Representatives members introduced Michigan House Joint ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or ...

Ashley became the driving force for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, legally ending slavery forever. [Jerry Klinger] ...

When the Civil War began, Douglass hoped the goal of the war would be to end slavery. But as late as August of 1862, Lincoln announced his primary goal was to save the Union "and is not either ...

Discussions of racial problems almost invariably bring out the cliché of “a legacy of slavery.” But anyone who is being serious, as distinguished from being political, would surely want to ...

Abolitionists put forward a wide range of approaches to end slavery, from moral persuasion to boycotts to the endorsement of violent rebellion. Read profiles of three of the movement's prominent ...

Former enslaved Africans, such as Olaudah Equiano also fought for an end to slavery. Equiano was a prominent member of the 'Sons of Africa', a group of 12 black men who campaigned for abolition.

His mission: to end modern-day slavery. Herzlich, 35, explains, "IJM combats human trafficking and modern-day slavery by basically partnering with governments to rescue victims. They restore the ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today. Along with essays and books on everything from the ...

Third, it kept the slave states in the Union, which gave free states power that they could—and later would—use to end slavery. If the Framers had tried to abolish slavery in the Constitution ...